Spring 2025 Documentary Showcase

The Documentary Showcase is a celebration of the work created by Southern Studies documentary students. This semester’s showcase takes place on May 2 in the Barnard Observatory Tupelo Room. Each artist will present samples of their work, followed by a panel discussion and questions from the audience. For more on each artist click the links below.

SST 533 – Documentary Fieldwork
Prof. Melanie Ho

Cassandra Hawkins | The Quiet Keeper: Black Librarians and the
Quiet Power of Preservation (Film)
Breanna Holcombe | Exploring Southern Food in Oxford, Mississippi (Photography and Audio)
David Smith | McArthur’s Pop-Top Craft Photography and Audio)

SST 534 – Documentary Photography
Prof. Shiraz Ahmed

Elias Addy | Baked into the Community (Photography)
Elaine Baker | Building Pressure (Photography)
Garrett Fuller | How We Remember and How We Move Forward (Photography)
Ashton Frankel | What Happened to the Blues? (Photography)
Christopher Fisher | Fishers of Men (Photography)
Peter Gershon | What Defines a Southern Man? (Photography)
Jaden McCutchen | Always in the Game (Photography)
Gracie Miester | Outside the Grocery (Photography)
NEEN. | Catharsis (Photography)
Samson Oklobia | Paper Bag Heroes (Photography)
Isabela Raia | Balancing College Life and Work (Photography)
Alexandra Santiago | Dough & Diaspora (Photography)
Libby Sherwood | Brewing With Intention (Photography)

SST 537 – Documenting the South in Film
Prof. John Rash

Will Harbison, Samson Oklobia, and Olivia Whittington | Shaped by Clay (Film)

SST 699 – documentary workshop 
Prof. Melanie Ho

Astrid Knox-McConnell | Home (Film)
Greta Koshenina | Warping Southern Mythologies (Cyanotype Photography)
Sela Ricketts | Don’t Let Them In: Our Vampire Stories in the French Quarter (Photography)